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Cahuachi

Ceremonial capital of the Nasca in the desert above the valley, and not a town: people came for the festivals and left again. It was given up after drought, mudslides and earthquakes, at about the time the great desert lines nearby stopped being made.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1 CE mainstream
  ceremonial centre in use (c. 1 CE) source
• 450 CE mainstream
  abandoned after drought, mudslides and earthquakes source

Where

14.8186° S, 75.1167° W

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2007n18.e13152
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuachi

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